The stamens become numerous (ten to forty) in the male flowers of a few monoecious genera (Pariana, Luziola).
In warmer countries monoecious and dioecious grasses are more frequent.
A few species, as we have seen, are monoecious or dioecious, while many are polygamous (having unisexual as well as bisexual flowers as in many members of the tribes Andropogoneae, fig.
We now come to our second Class, that of monoecious species, or those which have their sexes separated but borne on the same plant.
Two species of the section Urostigma with monoecious flowers occur in tropical Florida.
Delpino has also observed the curious fact that certain individuals of the monoecious walnut (Juglans regia) are proterandrous, and others proterogynous, and these will reciprocally fertilise each other.
With monoecious plants, as pollen has to be carried from flower to flower, there will always be a good chance of its being carried from plant to plant.
A remarkable fact with respect to anemophilous plants is that they are often diclinous, that is, they are either monoecious with their sexes separated on the same plant, or dioecious with their sexes on distinct plants.
We shall clearly understand why monoecious and dioecious,--why dichogamous, dimorphic and trimorphic plants exist, and many other such cases.
The following cases are worth giving, as they relate to monoecious forms, which do not require, and consequently cannot have been injured by, castration.
Of the first batch planted, not more than one-half will turn out perfect females, for I do not take into account monoecious trees, which I have already condemned.
The whole of the species and varieties of the tribe are what are called polygamous monoecious plants, each individual tree bearing the male and female organs of reproduction.
We shall clearly understand why monoecious and dioecious,--why dimorphic and trimorphic plants exist, and many other such cases.
The following cases are worth giving, as they relate to monoecious forms, which do not require, and consequently have not been injured by, castration.
The simplest case of this alteration in the relative position of the sexes is that which occurs in monoecious plants, where the male and female flowers have a definite position, but which in exceptional instances is altered.
Change in the relative position of male and female flowers= may thus occur in any monoecious plant.
Change from the dioecious to the monoecious condition.
Change from the monoecious to the dioecious condition.
Monoecious stamens and pistils on separate flowers, but on the same individual, 144.
These are tallmonoecious annual or perennial grasses.
This is a tall monoecious leafy annual (rarely perennial) grass with stout, smooth, polished, freely branching stems rooting at the lower nodes and varying in length from 3 to 5 feet or more.
This is an erect, tall, stout, freely branching, leafy, monoecious perennial grass.
A climbing herb, with broad, glossy leaves; and small, monoecious flowers.
Erect marsh plants, with long, narrow leaves; and small monoecious flowers in conspicuous spikes or heads.
Trees, with alternate pinnate leaves, no stipules, and monoecious flowers, the staminate in aments.
The genuine Araceae have no floral envelopes, and are almost all monoecious or dioecious; but the genera of the second section, with more highly developed flowers, are not to be separated.
Marsh or aquatic plants, with linear leaves, and monoecious flowers without proper perianth, in heads or a naked spike.
Flowers monoecious or polygamous, the parts in fours, with or without petals.
Flowers perfect or monoeciousupon the same spadix, rarely dioecious, with 4 or 6 scale-like sepals or none.
Flowers monoecious or dioecious; the staminate in clusters, mostly spiked; the pistillate without calyx, enclosed between a pair of appressed axillary bracts.
Marsh or aquatic herbs, with nerved and linear sessile leaves, and monoecious flowers on a spadix or in heads, destitute of proper floral envelopes.
Flowers monoecious or dioecious (involucrate and apparently perfect in Euphorbia).
Flowers monoecious or dioecious; the two kinds in separate axillary and catkin-like spikes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "monoecious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
